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TNG - episode to start an 8 year old on to get him interested.

  • 15-02-2020 1:30pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭


    Ok - I have an eight year old with a prospective interest in TNG.

    Loves data after seeing a few scenes of him on you YouTube.

    Any suggestions for a good episode to start him on?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭Evade


    Not that I think it's a particularly good episode but maybe Hero Worship, the one about a kid mimicking Data. The child character might be a little more relatable. Pen Pals could work too for a similar reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,775 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Evade wrote: »
    Not that I think it's a particularly good episode but maybe Hero Worship, the one about a kid mimicking Data. The child character might be a little more relatable. Pen Pals could work too for a similar reason.

    Pen Pals is an excellent episode.

    Another one is ''Data's Day'' Its an easy light hearted episode.

    There is more here ,

    https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/star-trek-picard-learn-about-data-with-these-10-ne/2900-2987/

    The one where he helps Q is also brilliant and as well as seen Data your son would get to see Q as well.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,077 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I was 5 years old when TNG first aired and remember being hooked early on. (Not quite sure if I actually started watching at that age or caught up on repeats a few years later).

    I'm going to be controversial and say that even though adult viewers consider him a pain in the arse, the Wesley Crusher episodes were my favourite as a child as he was just a few years older than me at the time. Seeing him save the day at the end of "The Naked Now" was fun and again in "Where no man has gone before". I have memories of him getting a seat on the bridge feeding into my own inner world fantasies at the time. "Datalore": another a Wesley saves the day episode with loads of campy fun from Data and evil twin thrown in the mix. "Coming of age" was another one that fed into my young child fantasies of becoming a Starfleet officer.

    "Schizoid man" and "Elementary dear data" could be fun early season Data episodes to watch.

    Of course, you also can't go wrong with the Borg episodes like "Q Who".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,775 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Stark wrote: »
    I was 5 years old when TNG first aired and remember being hooked early on. (Not quite sure if I actually started watching at that age or caught up on repeats a few years later).

    I'm going to be controversial and say that even though adult viewers consider him a pain in the arse, the Wesley Crusher episodes were my favourite as a child as he was just a few years older than me at the time. Seeing him save the day at the end of "The Naked Now" was fun and again in "Where no man has gone before". I have memories of him getting a seat on the bridge feeding into my own inner world fantasies at the time. "Datalore": another a Wesley saves the day episode with loads of campy fun from Data and evil twin thrown in the mix. "Coming of age" was another one that fed into my young child fantasies of becoming a Starfleet officer.

    "Schizoid man" and "Elementary dear data" could be fun early season Data episodes to watch.

    Of course, you also can't go wrong with the Borg episodes like "Q Who".


    I would wait of on introducing the Borg straight away. Could scare the child.

    I would say starting from the beginning even with ''Encounter at Farpoint'' part 1 and 2 and then the Data episodes would be the way to go even. Then you could play the rsst of it in order for him.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Brothers

    Show him Brothers






    Then .. of course .. ALL of TNG :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,974 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    That episode where the Enterprise keeps exploding. The groundhog day in space one.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,077 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    AMKC wrote: »
    I would wait of on introducing the Borg straight away. Could scare the child.

    Can't really speak for the OP's child as I don't know how sensitive the kid is but I would have been about 8/9 when the Borg episodes came out and they were the episodes that had me running round to my friends shouting about how cool they were.

    If you think about, there wasn't a lot of graphic violence in those episodes. Most of the fear came from suspense/implied horror. Best of both worlds part 1 is pretty much people standing around discussing what's to come until the big moment late in the episode when Picard announces "We have engaged the Borg".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Might be that jumping in direct to the Borg episode might take away from their pressence though.

    I remember a feel of how big and great the Enterprise was at that point. Then the Q being funny but then things getting REAL SERIOUS REAL FAST..

    The initial relief at the end of that episode

    Then the Best of Both Worlds CLIFFHANGER!!!

    So for the proper TNG Borg feel, probably starting at the start with Farpoint and getting to them the long way would be a good idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    +1 for Pen Pals ....
    Great episode ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭quad_red


    Thanks for the input - really good suggestions there.

    I think going into the Borg stuff too early without knowing the characters and appreciating the scale would be a big loss.

    So gonna go with Data’s day to start with. Will let ye know how it goes :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,085 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Slydice wrote: »
    Brothers

    Show him Brothers






    Then .. of course .. ALL of TNG :)

    You'd think the Enterprise computer would have a visual ID check when accepting priority commands (which seem pretty insecure anyway).

    "Alpha 2 Priority confir-... HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! Initiating security lockout!"

    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,775 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    You'd think the Enterprise computer would have a visual ID check when accepting priority commands (which seem pretty insecure anyway).

    "Alpha 2 Priority confir-... HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! Initiating security lockout!"

    :p

    I suppose they thought that voice ID was enough and did not think that there would be someone that could copy someone else's voice's so perfectly like Data did.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭quad_red


    So watched Data’s Day - a really good call. The 8 year old and (surprisingly) the six year old loved it.

    A really good intro to all the main characters. Some really nice comedy (they loved Crusher’s dance studio). Also a really nice intro in those mean Romulans and some nice Sherlock Holmes problem solving by Data.

    Absolutely chuffed they enjoyed it so much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭Minime2.5


    Instead of specific episodes just watch it from scratch yourself . Young boys naturally become interested in things there dad is


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